The ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, the most comprehensive assessment of children's physical activity in Canada, recently gave the country a D+ in overall physical activity.
May 16, 2024
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Navels, belly buttons, innies or outies … whatever term you use, your umbilicus may have plenty to tell you about the state of your health.
May 15, 2024
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We know vaccines have been a miracle for public health. Now, new research led by the World Health Organization has found vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives in the past 50 years from 14 different diseases. ...
May 14, 2024
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More than 29.5 million Americans ages 12 and up had alcohol use disorder—the medical term for the disease commonly known as alcoholism—in 2022, when the most recent national data was published.
May 20, 2024
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It's all kicking off on social media, again. This time it's about wearing sunscreen. The argument began when Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, raised concerns that daily sunscreen ...
May 16, 2024
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HIV prevention was allocated A$43.9 million over three years in this week's federal budget. Some $26m of this is for "PrEP" for people without access to Medicare.
May 16, 2024
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Pelvic health problems—such as bladder and bowel leaks, pelvic pain, heavy menstrual bleeding or vaginal prolapse—are a common experience for women. Yet despite how common these issues are and the serious effect they ...
May 14, 2024
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Should you be denied life insurance or have to pay extra if you have a genetic risk for certain diseases? Should insurance companies even have access to your genetic data in the first place? This is known as "genetic discrimination," ...
May 16, 2024
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Every year roughly 1,000 Canadians are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). Some 4,000 Canadians are currently living with the disease.
May 14, 2024
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It has long been thought that testosterone shortens men's lives. Studies in neutered animals and Korean eunuchs seem to confirm this. However, a new study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, draws these findings ...
May 15, 2024
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